1] There are “real questions” about whether vaccines cause autism in children.

2] wi-fi in schools might be harming kids.

Her dependence on RT was notable:

3] RT regular Ajamu Baraka, who slammed the “gangster states of NATO,” was her choice for VP.

4] The only network to consistently cover her candidacy and invite her on air was RT.

5] RT hosted a primary debate for the Green Party.

6] She travelled to Russia in 2015 to attend that dinner where Putin lauded Flynn.

7] Shortly before that she attended an RT event and met with the Ambassador.

8] Claimed no knowledge of how and why Assange addressed the Green Convention on closed circuit to promote the wikileaks/Russian exposure of DNC emails.

9] Pretty much spouted the Russian lines about HRC throughout the campaign.

Now she claims that Senate committee interest in her Russian ties is an attempt to smear her and that she sees no evidence of Russian interference during the campaign season, because the intelligence community is often wrong.

Back in the day when the only foreign money in an American campaign was Canadian, MX, or Brit, generally from investors in multinational sellers like Schenley’s and Molson’s and Dos Equis, and generally to both parties, this was all tolerable. It was during the Clinton-Dole race when Chinese and Indian money went to Clinton and Saudi money to Dole in very big sums that we saw how campaigns could be bent and beholden. The Russians knew that this loony was a spoiler on the margins, and they knew that DJT was not a cold warrior R. Their objective was disruption and fragmentation of their adversary, and they could pick a D next time if it suited them, which it might well, against a traditional R.

I don’t know how we can possibly stop it from happening again. But somehow, keeping anti-American, as opposed to simply commercial, interests out of our campaigns would be a good thing. My guess is that the best we can do is continuing exposure.

Could we force American media voting ownership to be limited to American citizens? Would there be a constitutional bar? Could we create a credible ombudsman to expose the source of digital media rumors, in a timely fashion? I wonder what the Intelligence Committees will advise.

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There’s a very famous photo of her at the same banquet table as Vladamir Putin and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. She says no Russians spoke to Americans and vice versa at that dinner but that seems like a very overly narrow explanation of that trip. It would be like a photo of Ted Cruz’s dad having dinner with Lee Harvey Oswald. There just seem to be no logical innocent explanations.

“Now she claims that Senate committee interest in her Russian ties is an attempt to smear her and that she sees no evidence of Russian interference during the campaign season, because the intelligence community is often wrong.”

This is amusing and ironic as she led the call for a recount due to the possibility of voting machines being hacked.

If “it” includes leaks to the press and things like Facebook & Twitter ads, then you can’t. And the cure would be worse than the disease. It’s also worth keeping in mind that Russia & Ukraine were engaged in a proxy battle throughout the campaign. Russia wasn’t the sole actor here.

“Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire
Kiev officials are scrambling to make amends with the president-elect after quietly working to boost Clinton.

9/11 Trutherism is interesting. There seems to be a very real question of why we remain friendly with Saudi Arabia and didn’t, say, go to war with them after 9/11. At the very least, that would seem to be a much more credible line of inquiry than trying to assert WTC7 and the two towers fell due to controlled demolition.

Because that fits the narrative, as he sees it. There are certainly right-wing crypto-fascists in the Richard Spencer mold that have tried to grab on to Trump’s coattails. But it’s not remotely the same thing, as the crypto-fascists on the far right would have no power, attention, relevance, or voice, if not for a media desperate to tie them to mainstream Republicans generally and Trump in particular.